AUTHOR=Wen Yanting , Guo Dan , Zhang Jing , Liu Xiaotian , Liu Ting , Li Lu , Jiang Shixie , Wu Dan , Jiang Huabei 

TITLE=Clinical photoacoustic/ultrasound dual-modal imaging: Current status and future trends

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physiology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.1036621

DOI=10.3389/fphys.2022.1036621

ISSN=1664-042X

ABSTRACT=for a natural integration of PAT and US imaging in a combined modality. Due to the similarities in PAT and US signal acquisition and processing, the combination of PAT and US imaging will create a new dual-modal imaging to achieve certain clinical applications. In recent years, particular attention is paid to those PAT/US dual-modal systems and highlighting the mutual benefit of using synchronously in clinical usage, which has the potential to substantially improve the specificity and sensitivity in diagnosing disease. In this review, the current PAT/US dual-modal imaging systems (i.e. acoustic transducers and hardware) are discussed in detail, and their promising clinical application are compared systematically. Finally, this review briefly discussed the potential impacts of these combined systems in the near future.